Author Archives: jdriselvato

LuaPlayer for OSX/Linux (LUA Development for PSP)

Don’t struggle any longer as a developer wanting to programming PSP games/apps on Linux or OSX. I spent the last 2 days trying to compile and find a working version on LuaPlayer for OS X and finally found a solution. … Continue reading

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Programming “The Public Radio” Tutorial

Congrats you got (or backed) The Public Radio and have the developer kit! For most cases following the official documentation on programming the radio works but if you ran into any issues, this tutorial might be able to help. Also … Continue reading

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I bought a Macintosh SE

I never really thought much about it and maybe cause I grew up with most of it, but I collect a lot of old things. For example I own about 7 Gameboy originals (half are modded), 4 Gameboy Pockets (all … Continue reading

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Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire Predictions

For those of you from my generation you’ll know the huge demand and hope for a Ruby and Sapphire remake. Yesterday, May 7th, 2014 (which also happens to be my cousins birthday, Happy Birthday Alex), Nintendo/Pokemon release a short trailer … Continue reading

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Flappys Pipe – can you survive the birds?

So I never had a chance to download Flappy Bird and get on the craze of the pointless game. What I am able to do though is create my own pointless game with birds and pipes. So I did, and … Continue reading

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The future of iOS Programming is… not code block evaluation assignment

EDIT: 2024, 10 years later I actually like using this with Swift. Especially when creating instance variables. I think the point I was trying to make here is Objective-c is a bulky language so code blocks look messy. Come on, … Continue reading

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My take on the iOS App Store

I was discussing the App Store with a user on Stackoverflow and this was what I came up with. I was asked the question, How many downloads did your free apps get in the first days? I responded with, Um, … Continue reading

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iOS 7: Custom NavigationView or NavigationViewController

This was a tricky one to figure out myself but this covers everything (back arrow color, back button color, title, title color, navigation bar color, transparency, etc). [code] //set bar color [self.navigationController.navigationBar setBarTintColor:[UIColor colorWithRed:85.0/255.0 green:143.0/255.0 blue:220.0/255.0 alpha:1.0]]; //optional, i don’t … Continue reading

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A small memory of my Gameboy and TLOZ Link’s awakening

I was listening to this: and the gameplay showed link swimming, and I started thinking to myself, link swims? Then black and white gameplay started showing up in my head and the connections in my brain put together something I … Continue reading

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How NASA could handle ETI (Alien) discovery

I am currently part of the space stack exchange beta forum that doesn’t have public access. A member on that forum asked an interesting question about how countries would handle Extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) discovery. Well, I wrote a pretty awesome answer … Continue reading

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